Racial and ethnic categories in biomedical research: There is no baby in the bathwater

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 497-499

  Cho, Mildred K ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHICS; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RACE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749406382     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: 1748720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2006.00061.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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